skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They'd basically have to fork Firefox. There isn't a clear distinction between the engine and the browser. They had an embedding API at one point but dropped it because the design made it hard to evolve both.

This is on top of people wanting quick market share which requires compatibility with the "big player" :(
You're absolutely right. If only I had something positive to contribute regarding Perl.
How does allowing trades tank their business? That is their business.
99.99% (or more) of people who buy lotteries, lose ALL their money. However, government allows anyone to buy them. There is no meaningful restriction for an assured destruction of wealth for most of those who buy them.

While this GME/AMC run will not end well for many people, restricting people from buying those stocks - whether it is through actions of trading platforms or governing agencies - smacks not just of paternalism, but downright favoritism. Only certain parties benefit from this.
It is likely that they have lend out the $GME shares to a hedge fund that went short, if this hedge fund goes bankrupt and the stock price continues to rise they will be in serious trouble.
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What do you think of these counter examples?

The automatic upgrades channel issue is close to the very heart of, for example, popular browser extensions becoming malicious.

Another attack from the past was the system certificate store compromise by Lenovo on workstations and laptops sold to its own customers, allowing for decryption of any HTTPS traffic from the customer. [1]

Another high profile attack that everyone will know about is the SolarWinds compromise of its software updates. [2]

[1] https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/TA15-051A

[2] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-sunspot-m...
Robinhood allows free trades. With all the new customers loging in and just buying a few stocks, they have to acquire lots of new shares. When this is all over, a lot of retail investors are going to be left holding the bag, and will likely not be continuing customers.
In other words, the secret sauce of a scalable, in terms of people, software project is the lack of any clever bs in it: such a project uses only boring predictable patterns in everything.
I've personally found Sideberry a more performant and less buggy version of TST as of late.
I just tested it with IBKR and was able to create a call buy order (exp 1/29, $500 strike) for a single contract.

Info: Market was closed so the order wasn’t executed but it was accepted by the order system before i cancelled it.
On the contrary, certificate breaches are a constant source of issues.

https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/topic/cybercrime-expl...

There have been cases of breaches at various root CAs, including Adobe products; the Zeus Trojan that had a forged Microsoft certificate; a Dutch government cert breach that impacted Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Google and also intelligence agencies like CIA, Mossad, and MI6; A breach at ANSSI, the French Cyber Security Agency.

Then of course there's the recent SolarWinds debacle that should kill this notion once and for all.
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Difference between a car & a dishwasher is that a car is typically outside (at least during use) which would help it to get a signal.

Anecdotally inside my house, phones generally get no/weak cell service but WiFi is accessible anywhere in the house.

Obviously they could include both, but if it were relying only on cellular, my washing machine quite possibly couldn't get a connection
I use it without an account. There's occasional nag screens that are quickly exited.
Didn't darknetdiaries do a podcast on how this very thing happened?
Why are you so quick to assume that people don’t know what they are doing?

Is it so hard to believe that at this point buying GME is more about activism than making profit?

“When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose”
Personally, I've switched over to Sidebery from Tree Style Tabs (which I used for years). TST was just too buggy for my liking.
> There are countless web frontends[^1] to expose a git tree on the internet, without the community/social aspect of github.

Github provides a number of things:

Git hosting
Collaboration with your team
Community collaboration
CI
Issue tracking

It is reasonable to still want most of these and not want one.
Yeah I'd like to caution that approximately everything reported about this is basically incorrect, even from reputable media. That includes PnL stuff but equally applies to...well, all the other stuff. I can't even count the number of conspiracies I've seen repeated.

I get that hedge funds are categorically unsympathetic characters in this play. But people are so angry that fact checking doesn't seem to matter. It doesn't help that a lot of things financial mechanics are esoteric and not commonly known, or that most people don't know the difference between hedge funds, banks, market makers and brokers.
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Yep, this exact thing existed I think, - in addition to Tree Style Tabs that have already been mentioned.
I'm sorry I didn't go into the details of my experience. I respect your decision of not caring about some aspects of a product. That is a valid point to like/dislike a product.

I'm thinking of using Harmonizely for my company - I like the custom domain feature. Personally, I will stay with Calendly and will also try my best to ask them to add custom domain and CalDAV.
Pump and dump isn’t legal.
I expect to pay a reasonable price. Being overcharged by 90% is not reasonable.
The README states:

> I've made the decision to keep this project closed to contributions for ... long term viability of the project.

Here's hoping he will open it up if he stops maintaining it (or slightly earlier)
I'm curious: what bugs did you run into? I've started using TST about a week ago and have not encountered any bugs whatsoever.
Ecosia is now available on Brave, the privacy browser
Big if true (have to take everything with a grain of salt nowadays).

Can anyone with more knowledge than me comment on what Robinhood's exposure is in all this? My understanding is they do not have any direct financial exposure, only reputational risk (and of course downsides from their users potentially losing a lot of money, but that should be part of the game). Is that correct?

And does blocking specific trades today open them up to future liability?
Yes they do, the system will punish them if they do otherwise:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/american-airlines-stock-si...

>American Airlines has tried to make amends, by announcing a significant pay raise for flight attendants and pilots , to take base pay rates to industry highs, years ahead of when union contracts would become amenable.

>The stock AAL, +6.63% tumbled as much as 8.6% in intraday trade, before paring some losses, even though the airline reported first-quarter earnings that beat expectations, while revenue rose in line with forecasts.

>“We are troubled by [American’s] wealth transfer of nearly $1 billion to its labor groups,” Baker wrote in a note to clients.
Otter Browser is more recent albeit crashier, but the resource requeriments are close.
> I don't think this is true, see my other comments on this thread. Trek-style post scarcity where material things are non-scarce still doesn't cover anything non-replicable like people's time and attention, and by implication, service industries.

I think this stems from an idea of what socialism involves that even Marx would have dismissed as irrelevant and utopian.

In fact, Marx railed relentlessly against the notion of socialism/communism ending all inequality. One of the more famous cases of that being in the Critique of the Gotha Programme, where he criticises what became the SPD for even talking about "equality" without defining it precisely. This is where the (Bolshevik) distinction between socialism and communism comes from, though Marx talked about the "lower" and "higher" stages of communism, and argued that the lower would explicitly retain a lot of inequality, and that anything else would be unfair because people have different needs, and so inequality is according to Marx a pre-requisite for a fair society.

The point he made was that the goal was not to give everyone everything for free - instead he explicitly pointed to a then well established slogan: "from each according to ability, to each according to their need". The point being that his expectation - one he stated explicitly in the Critique - was that there would very much still be an exchange where peoples access to that seemingly endless material wealth is contingent on their participation in doing their bit keeping society running. He did not expect a true post-scarcity society, but one that met sufficient needs to eradicate class struggle, but which at the same time still had a need for people to work.

In that respect, the Federation strongly imply it goes further than Marx, in work being implied to be fully voluntary, and I do think we can agree there are plenty of unaddressed issues there. Though I think it's not that substantial, in that there's are many other ways of providing rewards than through material wealth, and there's nothing incompatible with socialist thinking in that.

My point, though, is that you have socialism and communism long before you get to that stage. Eradicate class struggle by eradicating the ability of anyone to monopolise production, and you have communism, irrespective of the specific details of how allocation of resources is arranged. Which is why you'll find communist ideologies that advocate for free market models and the like as the best means of making such a system work.

Will there still be exchanges of value? Sure. But those exchanges will necessarily look very different when everyone has the ability to access sufficient material wealth to be able to walk away from any transaction without fear of starvation or not having anywhere to live. That freedom is the point, not some notion of absolute equality in all things or entirely eradicating money.

And that is why I'm arguing that any sufficiently utopian/post-scarcity society will seem socialist. Not because there's no exchange of value at the margins, but because it's a small enough part of the lives of the typical person that being constrained by resources rarely comes up.
> If the new regs enshrine the current reality in law then maybe there'll be more hope for fundamental reform.

This is a sideshow. Feds or regulatory body will crack down, we'll just accept another banned community that is "a threat to our democracy" and we'll move on. I don't think what is essentially financial de-regulation is a movement that's going to pick up steam some time soon. There's vagueness in securities laws and this will continue. Meanwhile banks will periodically be sued for tens of billions that will fill the coffers of attorney generals, justice departments and various state regulators [0]

> Isn't that the whole point WSB is making?

Yes, partly. I think much of it is about having some fun and having a sense of community.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-banks-paid-110-billionin-mo...
I'm not really sure I'd use either. I did attempt to host my own SourceHut but after joining their channel on Freenode and mentioning Kubernetes/containers twice (because I didn't get a response a day later.) I got a message saying, "We don't take too kindly to Kubernetes around here." which didn't come off very well. This wasn't the same as, "you're on your own."
Sure. Robinhood got a call from someone very powerful in their circle, politely asking them to stop the amateur plebes from interfering with their professional market manipulation. We are taking about people commanding titanic amounts of capital and (indirect) regulatory power. Robinhood then had the choice, do we make enemies out of these people or do we just screw, er, I mean protect, our customers? Unburdened by a moral compass or fear of retribution, the RH leadership made the obvious choice.
I don’t have a data feed available to verify but it’s at least possible there is no one on the other side of the order book for these symbols so Robinhood can’t execute any more buy orders.

Judging this as a policy decision from a 1 sentence tweet and some screen shots seems premature.
This is America. If we can’t nationalize healthcare, it’s fantasy we nationalize an auto maker’s charger network.
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It’s not unbelievable, but it does sound like a breach of fiduciary duties to side with investors against your clients.

Is what RH doing legal for a brokerage?
Thousands of new accounts buying one stock for free (while it's at the top) and then disappearing after it tanks is not going to help them. Is this not obvious?
This will just incense the WSB crowd more, surely? The cat is out of the bag, people can organize a group purchase of stock if they feel like it. On one platform or another.
looks like pretty standard headers
That tactic worked out well during the French Revolution...
I always thought the app was good - but my view of the role of the broker is to place my trades. If the SEC wants to shut down trading of a security they should do so.

This will be very disruptive to Robinhood. I think today they made a poor business decision that will affect their valuation and potentially the company itself.

I don't do much trading on Robinhood, mostly for learning or experimenting with small amounts of money but this move has left a sour taste. I'll be closing my account, while recognizing that other brokerages are doing the same (though not all).

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Retail investors are locked out, $GME is still going up. What's the fucking excuse now?
I like this one even better and I think many of you will too. I refuse to close the tab just so I can look at it once in a while. It makes me smile. I might buy some tiny trees and a Hornby Peckett 614.

https://www.newmodellersshop.co.uk/
Hi, Litestream author here. I'm happy to answer any questions about the policy or the project itself. I was apprehensive about adding the closed-contribution policy but I've seen overwhelmingly positive support for it since I released.

Some commenters have noted that I could use another free code hosting platform. That's a valid criticism. However, I like the tools and workflow that GitHub offers personally. The GitHub Discussions feature in particular has been a nice step toward improving communication. GitHub Actions have been really nice for a CI workflow too.
> Finance is highly regulated and arbitrarily so.

But how can you regulate that people get together and buy stock? They need... 1) Internet bulletin board. That's it. The barrier of entry is just so damn low, and that's in part also why this has happened. In hindsight I'm surprised it hasn't happened before but I suppose Covid-19 brought this on.

I think it would be easier to regulate something that at least takes a certain amount of investment in terms of insight or knowledge, but here you can just take any random heavily shorted company and like... get people on a popular board to buy stocks over a day.

This time, sure, it was Reddit and the subreddit may be suspended. Next time it'll be a Discord or Telegram board or something. It's just... so easy
uh,, arent these big players usually just reskinned chromiums only? whats giving them an advantage in terms of market share?
Yes. Hedge funds profit from every trade on RH.
I committed to switching to Vivaldi back in 2019 or so. I installed it on all of my machines (including Mac and PC). But I found it to be unstable and prone to crashes and weird issues, even though the features were nice. I eventually gave up in frustration and switched to Firefox, which I've found to be rock solid by comparison.

I personally am not planning to give Vivaldi another shot any time soon after that mess.
I don't think it'll be known. I bet what you described already happens and yet it attracts far less attention than the end to end encryption shenanigans.

I also think WhatsApp messages backup is literally a backdoor to bypass the end to end encryption.

I think government RCE is far more serious concern than encryption, yet it gets no attention.

We hear about the encryption from all the second class governments that are blocked from the juicy NSA backdoors of auto updates. Ever noticed how the NSA stays quiet in all those encryption debates?
Does it have to mean that?
It’s pretty hypocritical for a casino to say that you are welcome to keep playing our table games and lose your money to us slowly but you aren’t allowed to sit down at that table full of poker sharks because we are worried you’ll lose your shirt.
let me guess they started with 10 and then thought the solution was to add 10 more ?
Nah, it’s likely net interest that is the largest portion.
That shouldn’t change anything if they require the stocks to be purchased with cash and not margin.

Brokerages can, and do all the time, set specific margin requirements for volatile securities. There’s no reason they can’t do that here as well. (unless they literally can’t because their tech stack doesn’t support it which would be pretty funny)
Another example: a train schedule site that requires the latest approved browser. If you want to travel, first make sure you're not in the middle of nowhere.
Wow there... sometimes digital emulation of an analog circuit is faster than the analog circuit since you can solve for equilibria, easily repeat calculations, use well researched programming tools, etc
> It does feel like a watershed moment regarding hedge funds. This is the first time netizens capitalize on hedge fund short favorites and it has been surprisingly easy to cause an absolute catastrophy in the order of billion losses for them. I heard Melvin Capital may even have gone bankrupt?

I spent all night going through many of those threads, and I have to say they are ready to join Bitcoin once the SEC cracks down on them and freezes their Robinhood accounts and possibly even their bank accounts linked to Robinhood.

If Melvin does go down it will be its own success, but now they're going full vigilante investor mode, and putting money in BB, AMC etc... this won't stop unless the State intervenes and could set a precedent and as you say create a 'watershed moment.'

It won't be long until they realize what the long con really is: central bank based fiat currency that created these boom-bust cycles in the first place.

I initially mocked them when I heard about them taking GME to its recent rise, and still kind of do as WSB is a joke even by their own admission; but that doesn't mean it cannot create positive change. After all comedians just use humour in their jokes to highlight and poke fun of some of Society's most absurd aspects with varying levels of success in reforming it.

Dave Chappelle's latest monolouge at SNL after the election highlighted this very well.
The vocabulary is already there. What is out of place is the perception of where the defaults lie. Right now we seem to assume that, unless someone takes the time to write out rules explicitly saying what they're not willing to do, then they must be willing to do it.

It should be just the other way around. If a project wants contributions, for example, then they can communicate that by posting contribution guidelines in the README.
Just invest in Bitcoin now, it is going to do the same thing in a few months. And it can’t be censored like this. I admire the gme crowd’s efforts but they are so misguided. Investing in zombie companies we actually hate is pointless. Yes you might bankrupt a hedge fund or two but the system will continue. Bitcoin was created for the disruption to the corrupt financial system that they are seeking.
Robinhood frequently goes down several times a year whenever there's a big event like this that attracts a lot of attention.
Yeah i'm sure they hate the traffic and the increased user base. Get real.
Obligatory we are at higher inequality than immediately before the French Revolution. Wonder what that means?

Some interesting reading:

Professor Walter Scheidel examines the history of peace and economic inequality over the past 10,000 years - https://news.stanford.edu/2017/01/24/stanford-historian-unco...

Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality - https://www.jstor.org/stable/2777764?seq=1
> That asset has associated risk vs cash that for the most part doesn't.

Yes, that's why when you accept to lend your stocks, you will receive interests in exchange.
> We have
rounded the multiple to 15.2x in honor of Tylee, Cohen’s toy poodle and
Cohen’s reputation as an aggressive, entrepreneurial founder.

OK, I'll pay $300 for a stock that will be worth $169 in 4 years assuming that Ryan Cohen has 100% chance of using is legendary Ryan Cohen powers to seize digital game sale margins from all the walled gardens, because somebody on WSB bought a domain name and used orange and green highlights in a spiffy PDF.
Alienating your userbase before an IPO. Damn, how much leverage do this 'hidden' hand have.
Do you think the move is actually powered by the WSB soccer moms, or is it other funds pushing?
Re. learning resources, I'm just at the beginner level in clojure, but a subscription to https://purelyfunctional.tv/ was very good to get a start, as well as the book "getting clojure".
Imagine if a government had this much power! They could easily spy on their political opposition, dissidents, or simply work out where and how to most effectively target their political campaign for the next "election", so they can stay in power. Heck, even collecting just the metadata could have serious consequences.

Because, who checks the government and makes sure that the master key is not abused by those in power? The scariest part is that it all can be done silently, behind our backs, without us ever knowing what's really happening. You will never find out if your message was decrypted and read.

Remember, it all starts with the banner of "fighting organized crime and terrorists", but that is just an excuse to an even bigger treasure trove of information these people want. I'd say giving these people that much power is much more dangerous than anything else.
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Well, in this case the ToS will be a contract one needs to "digitally sign" in order to open an RH account. RH would simply claim that its customers didn't have to accept the terms, regardless of how bs those were. I'm not a lawyer, though.
Bug fixes in Laravel are considered “breaking changes” and refused
Could either be govt/NASDAQ forced something or a major investor/VC in Robinhood is putting the pressure because they have other investments or vested interests in the hedge funds getting hurt.
In the US, yes, a terms of service can force binding arbitration.
Except it isn't a pump and dump. It is a short squeeze. Hedge fund managers are betting more stocks than the company issued and people are taking advantage of that opportunity.

The closest thing to criminal activity we see here is people betting more than a company's stock. When hedge fund managers see this and buy all the stock to squeeze the shorters it's normal. When it's people like you and me they say it is illegal.
CP trading chat rooms should be shut down by arresting people creating and selling content in there, not by giving someone the right to shut down any chat room they want by the click of a button. Because if you can shut down CP trading chat rooms by the click of a button, we all know this button will be used mainly to target good causes as CP represents a tiny proportion of people or even criminal activities.
It seems preprogrammed in the brain. I can witness that in people that will gradually boil you until you snap and then benefit from the chaos as revenge almost sub-conscientiously
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
Censorship on EchoJS
Now people are moving away from Robinhood is it only a matter of time before the other platforms do the same?
It's a police tactic called Kettling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettling